[GASPalerts] GASPalert: 2.21.08

[GASP Alerts]

  February 21, 2008


    _Events_


      Heart Health & Air Quality -- What's the Connection?

Wednesday, February 27, 2008
6:30 -- 8:30 PM
Wightman School Community Building
5604 Solway St., Room 205, Pittsburgh 15217

Join us as cardiologist Dr. Don Grandis discusses his first hand 
experience with heart health in Pittsburgh and fine particulate matter 
and its relationship to heart disease.
Heart healthy snacks provided
Contact GASP at 412-325-7382 or lee at gasp-pgh.org 
<mailto:lee at gasp-pgh.org> for more information and to reserve your spot.

For more information check out this link: 
www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=79270 
<http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=79270>



      Burning Waste Coal in PA: Boon or Bust?

Join GASP as we examine the controversial issue of burning waste coal 
for energy.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
6:30 -- 9:30pm
Rodef Shalom Congregation, 4905 Fifth Avenue in Oakland (free parking 
available)

Presentations by:
Conrad Daniel Volz with the Center for Healthy Environments and 
Communities and UPCI's Center for Environmental Ecology
Eric Schaeffer, Executive Director, Environmental Integrity Project

Tickets: $20 GASP member, $25 non-member
Contact GASP at 412-325-7382 or lee at gasp-pgh.org 
<mailto:lee at gasp-pgh.org> for more information and to purchase tickets.



      PennFuture's Southwestern PA Global Warming Conference 2008

Saturday, April 5, 2008
9:00am -- 3:00pm
La Roche College, College Center Square, 9000 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh
Continental breakfast and lunch included

Learn how you can take action to help stop global warming, with 
presentations by national, state, and local experts and leaders:
Larry Schweiger, president, National Wildlife Federation
Brenda Ekwurzel, climate scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists
David Foster, president, Blue-Green Alliance
Allen Kukovich, director of the office of Governor Ed Rendell for the 
southwest region and more

This is a free event for all PennFuture members and students, there is a 
$10 charge for others. Register online at 
www.pennfuture.org/form_secure.aspx?form_name=GlobalWarmingApril 
<https://www.pennfuture.org/form_secure.aspx?form_name=GlobalWarmingApril>


    _GASP in the News_

*Green groups push Onorato to keep air quality program*
www.post-gazette.com/pg/08051/858889-100.stm 
<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08051/858889-100.stm>
Local environmental groups active on air pollution issues have called on 
Allegheny County Chief Executive Onorato to pledge to continue the 
county Health Department's Air Program...

*Environmentalists' air concern over 'quality' program*
www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_553468.html 
<http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_553468.html> 

With a chemical engineering degree from the University of Pittsburgh and 
almost 30 years of work experience, Allegheny County Health Department 
air quality engineer Najeeb Basher could double hi $44,000 salary at a 
private company...

*Environmental groups want air quality program to stay local*
www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2008/02/18/daily26.html 
<http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2008/02/18/daily26.html>
Members of local environmental groups on Wednesday called on Allegheny 
County Chief Executive Dan Onorato to keep the county's Air Quality 
Program local.

*Team 4: Health Dept. Air-Quality Program in Jeopardy*
www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/15358037/detail.html 
<http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/15358037/detail.html>
Four local green groups have called on Allegheny County Chief Executive 
Dan Onorato to make a public commitment to keep the Health Department's 
air quality program...

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/Group Against Smog and Pollution, Inc.
Wightman School Community Building
5604 Solway St., #204
Pittsburgh, PA 15217
P:412-325-7382 F: 412-325-7390
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